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Bring the JubileeNovel
Ward Moorestandalone novel1953
Time travel, about war.
“Like most Northerners, Hodge was poor - but he had ambition.”
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The Alvin Maker SagaSeries
series15 books1986
Historical fantasy and fantasy, about coming of age.
“In fact, young Alvin appears to be the only one in the world.”
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Stranger in a Strange LandNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1961
First contact, about aliens and faith and religion, set in near future.
Time and AgainSeries
series2 books1970
completed
Time travel, mysterious in tone, set in big city.
“Commercial artist Si Morley is recruited into a secretive government project testing whether self-hypnosis, combined with a recreated slice of 1880s Manhattan, can send someone back in time.”
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Ada or Ardor: A Family ChronicleNovel
Vladimir Nabokovstandalone novel1969
Literary & general and sagas & family, challenging in tone, set in alternate earth.
Earth AbidesNovel
George R. Stewartstandalone novel1949
Post-apocalyptic, about survival and plague and pandemic, set in mid 20th century.
“Set in the 1940s in Berkeley, California, the story is told by Isherwood Williams, who emerges from isolation in the mountains to find almost everyone dead. en.wikipedia.org”
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